SALC POL CIR No. 06/1999-2000 Dated 17-11-1999

Input-Output Norms - Quantity of Vitamin Mixes Import

Quantity of Vitamin Mixes allowed for import underthe Standard Input Output Norm during the period 1st April, 1995 to 31st March, 1997 - reg.

Attention of all licensing authorities is invited to the Standard Input Output Norms entry at S.No. 7 for export of Frozen Headon/Headless Shrimps under Fish Product Group Category of Handbook of Procedures, Vol.II (RE:March 1995 & March 1996 respectively)as available from the period 1st April 1995 to 31st March 1997.

It has come to the notice of this office that during the above mentioned period against export of 1 MT of Frozen Headon/Headless Shrimps, exporters have been claiming the quantity of vitamin mixes as given at (j) of above SION for the entire quantity of 0.227 MT and that at the same time no quantity of mineral mixes as given at (k) ofabove SION have been claimed. In this connection, as is evident from the notified SION as available during the period indicated above, it is stated that the quantity of 0.227 MT, as indicated after a vertical line drawn against both the sub-entries (j) & (k), was the combined quantity of both Vitamin Mixes and the Mineral Mixes and thatneither of these two items was allowed for import or for that matter for the purpose of duty credit in the pass book for full quantity of 0.227 MT in a stand alone manner. However the exact quantity of both the inputs Vitamin Mixes and Mineral Mixes withinthe overall quantity of 0.227 MT depended on the composition of the variousingredients normally used in the manufacturing of prawn feed and that without either of these two essential ingredients i.e. Vitamin Mixes and Mineral Mixes, thecomposition of prawn feed, as visualised in the above notified SION, cannot be said to be complete. Thus for the above purposes, exporters of Frozen Headon/Headless Shrimps were required to specifically indicate/declare the quantity of each input i.e. Vitamin Mixes and Mineral Mixes individually within the overall quantity of 0.227 MT to have been actually used against the product exported.

In the light of above, it is directed that all the licensing authorities shall take appropriate corrective steps and reduce the quantity of vitamin mixes erroneously permitted for import during the period indicated above from 0.227 MT to a quantitywhich is declared to have been actually used in the prawn feed against the item Frozen Headon/Headless Shrimps exported. The Licensing Authorities shall take similarappropriate corrective action for recovering excess duty credits erroneously permittedin the past after reducing the duty credit for Vitamin Mixes from 0.227 MT to a quantity which is declared to have been actually used in the prawn feed against the item Frozen Headon/Headless Shrimps exported. However, the above corrective actions are subject to the procedural laws including the laws of limitation.

This issues with the approval of DGFT.

Sd/-
(Ashutosh Mishra)
Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade

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